Title :
PC-1D Version 3: Improved speed and convergence
Author_Institution :
Sandia Nat. Lab., Albuquerque, NM, USA
Abstract :
PC-1D, a semiconductor-device modeling program for personal computers, now computes faster, converges to a solution for a wider range of problems, and offers several new features. An improved numerical algorithm for updating the carrier potentials after each iteration which improves the program´s ability to converge to a solution is described. Additional features of the version are options to create a printable file which lists all parameters for a given problem, and the ability to generate an auxillary space-time graph. To demonstrate the capabilities of the new version, an example is presented which explores the effect of surface recombination on photoconductance-decay measurements
Keywords :
electronic engineering computing; semiconductor device models; PC-1D Version 3; auxillary space-time graph; carrier potentials; numerical algorithm; personal computers; photoconductance-decay measurements; semiconductor-device modeling program; surface recombination; Convergence; Documentation; Error correction; Laboratories; Microcomputers; Photoconductivity; Photovoltaic systems; Radiative recombination; Silicon; Spontaneous emission;
Conference_Titel :
Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, 1991., Conference Record of the Twenty Second IEEE
Conference_Location :
Las Vegas, NV
Print_ISBN :
0-87942-636-5
DOI :
10.1109/PVSC.1991.169227
